Westward Travel

Books are listed below in Alphabetic order

$14.00 Paperbound 253 pages	111 Days to Zion: The Day-by-Day Trek of the Mormon Pioneers	Daily account of the trip of the first company of Mormon pioneers.
	Hal Knight and Dr. Stanley B. Kimball

$12.95 Paperbound 90 pages	Amidst the Gold Dust - Women Who Forged the West	Amidst the God Dust is a collection of individual biographies about five women who, at first glance, seem vastly different, yet despite outward differences, have much to teach us about hardships, courage and perseverance. (Cover notes)
	Julie Danneberg

$16.00 Paperbound 438 pages	Beyond the Hundredth Meridian John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the west	The successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West. Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West. Only now, we may recognize just how accurate a prophet he was.
	Wallace Stegner

$39.95 Hardcover 493 pages	Blood of the Prophets Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows	The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent act to occur on the overland trails, yet it has been all bur forgotten. Will Bagleys' "Blood of the Prophets" is the most extensive investigation of the events surrounding the mass killings since Juanita Brooks published her groundbreaking study.
	Will Bagley

$13.95 Paperbound 231 pages	The Bridger Pass Overland Trail 1862-1869 Through Colorado and Wyoming and Cross Roads at the Rawlins-Baggs Stage Road in Wyoming	Collection of photos, interviews and historical research about the Overland Trail and the areas it covers.
	Louise Bruning Erb, Ann Bruning Brown, Gilberta Bruning Hughes

$8.95 Paperbound 64 pages	California Trail: The Story Behind the Scenery	California! To Americans living east of the Missouri River, this romantic name meant the opportunity for fresh beginnings and a renewed life -- perhaps even instant riches. Follow the trail with beautiful photos and stories from Independence, Missouri to the various stopping places in California in this full color, 9x12" book.
	Charles H. Dodd

$14.95 Softcover 162 pages	The Cherokee Trail Bent's Old Fort to Fort Bridger	Cherokee Indian gold seekers 150 years ago pioneered what was then-and now- Colorado's busiest highway. Travelers have long thronged this road along the eastern base of the rocky Mountains. Starting at Bent's Fork on the Arkansas River, then west to Pueblo then north to Fort Bridger in Wyoming. Includes maps, pictures and journal entries of those who traveled the Cherokee Trail.
	Lee Whiteley

$29.95 Paperbound 418 pages	Cherokee Trail Diaries Volume I - 1849 Volume II - 1850	This definitive work of the Cherokee Trails includes the trails' location, including campsites and the emigrants that pioneered them.
	Patricia K.A. Fletcher, Dr. Jack Earl Fletcher, Lee Whiteley

$29.95 Paperbound 445 pages	Cherokee Trail Diaries Volume III - 1851-1900	Includes maps, journal entries and corrections to Vol. I and II. Covers emigrants, goldseekers, cattle drives and outlaws who used the trails.
	Dr. Jack E. Fletcher, Patricia K.A. Fletcher

$39.50 Hardbound 326 pages	Children's Voices from the Trail	This book examines the white child's perspective on the Platte River road's Oregon, California, and Mormon trails between 1841 and the 1869 completion of the transcontinental railroad.
	Rosemary Gudmundson Palmer

$17.95 Paperbound 285 pages	Coyotes and Canaries: Characters Who Made the West Wild...and Wonderful	In this enlightening volume, Wyoming historian and storyteller Larry Brown gives us the low-down on numerous residents of the "Equality State," from famed saddle maker, Frank Meanea, to the notorious Tom Horn, to Wyoming's first black legislator, William Jefferson Hardin. An absolute must for any interested in Wyoming history.
	Larry K. Brown

$26.95 Hardcover 307pages	Devil's Gate Owning the Land, Owning the Story	Tom Rea goes to the heart of a seemingly empty place and finds a landscape teeming with life and death and many histories. With precision and passion, Rea unearths the human struggles long buried in this vast and lonesome country. This is western history at its most compelling.
	Tom Rea

$15.95 Paperbound 117 pages	Donner Party Cookbook A guide to survival on the Hastings Cutoff	Terry Del Bene combines a riveting narrative with his extensive knowledge of 19th century foods. Like peeling an onion, this account strips the story to the hard truths of overland travel as the layers of social and cultural belief and action that resulted in the 1846 tragedy in the Sierra Nevada are uncovered. There is nothing dry about the tale.
	Terry Del Bene, Ph.D.

$13.95 Paperbound 367 pages	Down the Great Unknown John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy through the Grand Canyon	On May 23, 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. No one had ever explored the fabled Grand Canyon; to adventurers of that era it was a region almost as mysterious as Atlantis -- and as perilous. The ten men set out down the mighty Colorado River in wooden rowboats. Six survived.
	Edward Dolnick

$18.00 Paperbound 797 pages	Empire Express Building the First Transcontinental Railroad	Beginning in 1842 with a visionary's dream to span the continent with twin bands of iron, Empire Express captures three dramatic decades in which the United States effectively doubled in size fought three wars, and began to discover a new national identity. Nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History
	David Haward Bain

$7.95 Paperbound 56 pages	Finding the Right Place The Story of the Mormon Trail	This book is concerned with many of the experiences of the Mormon travelers. These experiences are reflected in a variety of exercises including map work, charts & graphs, classification, identification, word searches, and others. All should appeal to both young and old explorers of the Mormon Trail.
	William E. Hill

$7.95 Paperbound 64 pages	Following Lewis and Clark's Track The Story of the Corps of Discovery	This activity book is focused around the purchase of the Louisiana Territory and the Experiences of the Corps of Discovery. The wide variety of exercises include: time lines, charts and graphs, map reading, word searches, puzzles and other activities that should appeal to young and old alike.
	William E. Hill

$4.95 Softcover 24 pages	Great Trains to cut out & put together	From 1 horse-power trains to the UP Big Boy read about the trains and then make paper models to show what they looked like.
	Nick Taylor

$3.95 Paperbound 32 pages	Heading West An Activity Book for Children	As you read through this book you will get a chance to complete many different types of exercises. All of them will help you learn about the pioneers and their trip west. You will see some of the scenes, animals, forts, clothing, and equipment that the pioneers saw and used one hundred and fifty years ago.
	William E. Hill and Jan C. Hill

$14.95 Paperbound 262 pages	History From The Highways: Wyoming	“Tales of Wyoming’s past are laid out along the state’s principal roadways and illustrate all the major eras in the Cowboy State’s history….” (Cover notes).
	Thomas Schmidt and Winfred Blevins

$19.95 Paperbound 349 pages	In Tar and Paint and Stone The Inscriptions at Independence Rock and Devil's Gate	The definitive history and index of inscriptions found on Independence Rock -- The Oregon Trail's "Great Register of the Desert."
	Levida Hileman

$14.00 Paperbound 505 pages	Journals of Lewis and Clark	Together Lewis and Clark kept a journal, a richly detailed record of the flora and fauna they encountered, and the awe-inspiring landscape they traversed, from their base camp near present-day St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River, mapping rivers, tracing the principal waterways to the sea, and establishing the American claim to the territories of Idaho, Washington and Oregon..
	Edited by Bernard Devoto

$8.95 Paperbound 64 pages	Lewis and Clark Voyage of Discovery	The story of Lewis and Clark told in word and beautiful full color pictures -- including quotes from the journey.
	David Muench, Dan Murphy

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Lincoln Highway Map

Highway map of the United States showing the Lincoln Highway in easy to follow red. Map is laminated and unfolded.

$34.5 Hardcover 180 pages	The Lincoln Highway Wyoming	Presents a narrative history of the highway in the state, including a driving guide, followed by a dossier of maps. The U.S. Geological Survey's 7.5 minutes quadrangles are used a a base, with the routes of the several variations of the Lincoln Highway overlaid as dark gray bands. Chapters take you county by county through Wyoming with pictures to illustrate many land marks.
	Gregory M. Franzwa

$29.95 Paperbound 277 pages	Maps of the California Trail	250 Maps of the California Trail.
	Gregory M. Franzwa

Out of Print Unavailable $18.95 Paperbound 294 pages	Maps of the Oregon Trail	These maps and the accompanying history take you along the complete Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri to Fort Vancouver, Oregon. Fascinating!
	Gregory M. Franzwa

$4.99 Soft Cover 192 pages	Meriwether Lewis Boy Explorer	One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans. These lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies are easily read by children of eight and up.
	Charlotta M. Bebenroth

$11.95 Paperbound 221 pages	More than Meets the Eye: Wyoming Along Interstate 80	Interstate 80 through Wyoming is brimming with sights, history and fascinating folks. You'll find them all in these pages.
	Mary Ann Trevathan

$10.95 Hardcover, plastic binding 120 pages	The Mormon Trail Cookbook: Endeavors, Struggles and Cooking Traditions of the Mormon Pioneers	The Mormon Trail Cookbook will take you on a trip through time beginning with traditional ethnic cooking. These traditional recipes are traced through time and the modern-day versions are also found.
	Morris

$7.95 Paperbound 64 pages	Mormon Trail: Voyage Of Discovery	A full color pictorial of scenes along the Mormon Trail.
	Stanley B. And Violet T. Kimball

$19.95 Softcover 318 pages	The Mountain Meadows Massacre	This book remains the definitive study of that dark day in the history of Utah when an emigrant wagon train crossing southern Utah was attacked by Indians and Mormons, and all the emigrants, with the exception of a few children, were slaughtered. Brooks, a scholarly researcher, discusses the facts as she found them, neither smearing nor clearing the participants as individuals.
	Juanita Brooks

$7.95 Paperbound 64 pages	Oregon-California Trails	This activity book is focused around the experiences of the early emigrants. The wide variety of exercises include: map reading, identification, word searches, making charts and graphs, classifications, and crossword puzzles that should appeal to young and old alike.
	William E. Hill

$5.95 Soft Cover 31 pages	The Oregon Trail	The story of the Oregon Trail told through story, journal entries and photographs.
	R. Conrad Stein

$13.00 Paperbound 463 pages	The Oregon Trail	Exuberantly documents Francis Parkman's 1846 expedition into the American wilderness. Observed with a reporter's eye and recorded in detail, the whole panorama of life on the Great Plains comes forth against the cruel indifference and majesty of the vast land itself -- the emigrants with their "broad-brimmed hats, thin visages, and staring eyes: whose days were filled with hardship, and the Indians and buffalo whose demise Parkman foresaw.
	Francis Parkman, Jr.

Out of Print Unavailable $10.95 Hardcover/Spiral Bound 208 pages	The Oregon Trail Cookbook	This is a collection of 370 recipes and remedies, some dating back to the era of the Oregon Trail, and is a historical view of cooking, traveling, and surviving on the Trail.

$19.95 Paperbound 419 pages	The Oregon Trail Revisited	The emigrants who pioneered the Oregon Trail and settled the West Coast have become American heroes and a source of inspiration today. Included in this book are detailed instructions to precise locations along the trail, which may be reached in a family car.
	Gregory M. Franzwa

$7.95 Paperbound 64 pages	Oregon Trail: Voyage of Discovery	A full color pictorial of scenes along the Oregon Trail.
	Dan Murphy

Out of Print Unavailable $18.96 Soft Cover 288 pages	Our Valley Eden Valley, Wyoming	The settling of Eden Valley -- one family's story.
	Ora E. Wright and Lenora W. Wright

$12.95 Paperbound 279 pages	Ponder The Path	Book One of the authors’ Talking History Series, this book “…is a stirring narrative of the westward expansion of the United States between 1808 and 1830, “ (from Foreword).
	Gary Wiles and Delores Brown

$8.95 Paperbound 64 pages	Pony Express: The Story Behind the Scenery	Follow the Pony Express trail from St. Joseph Missouri to San Francisco, California. Beautiful photographs of the Pony Express story in this full-color 9x12" book are accompanied by stories and descriptions.
	Anthony Godfrey & Roy Webb

$14.00 Paperbound 250 pages	Stagecoach Wells Fargo and the American West	The trail of Wells Fargo runs through nearly every imaginable landscape and icon of frontier folklore. From the Great Plains to the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean, the company's operations embraced almost all social, cultural, and economic activities west of the Mississippi. For a time, Wells Fargo was the most powerful and widespread institution in the American West, even surpassing the presence of the federal government.
	Philip L. Fradkin

$4.50 Paperbound 40 pages	This is the Place The Story of the Mormon Trail	As you read through this book you will learn many things about the Mormon Trail and the people associated with it. There are some fun activities and puzzles to do. There is also a game to play as well as a project to complete. We hop you will enjoy activities..
	William E. & Jan C. Hill

$16.95 Paperbound 346 pages	Trails of the White Savages	Branded "White Savages" by Ben Franklin, the Scotch-Irish outcasts became America's warriors and trailblazers of the early 1800s. Andrew Jackson, Ewing Young and others fought duels, wars and Indians. Together, they rose from obscurity to become America's most powerful men.
	Gary Wiles & Delores Brown

$17.00 Paperbound 521 pages	Undaunted Courage	In this sweeping adventure story is presented one of the most momentous journeys in American History. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific, through the heart-stopping moments of the actual trip, to Lewis's lonely demise on the Natchez Trace. Along the way, Ambrose shows us the American West as Lewis saw it -- wild, awesome, and pristinely beautiful.
	Stephen E. Ambrose

$14.95 Paperbound 255 pages	Wagons Wheels: A Contemporary Journey on the Oregon Trail	Climb aboard Ben Kern's lead wagon and retrace the Oregon Trail with the 150th Anniversary Wagon Train. Experience the trail first-hand through the diaries of modern-day travelers Ben Kern, Candy Moulton, and Earl Leggett, plus gain insight from the historic diaries of pioneer emigrants.
	Candy Moulton & Ben Kern

$12.00 Paperbound 337 pages	WASHAKIE Chief of the Shoshones	Washakie was chief of the eastern band of the Shoshone Indians for almost sixty years, until his death in 1900. a strong leader of his own people, he was the wisdom of befriending the whites. Washakie is seen signing historic treaties, aiding overland emigrants in the 1850s, and finally assisting whites in fighting the Sioux.
	Grace Raymond Hebard

$3.95 Paperbound 40 pages	West with Lewis and Clark The Story of the Corps of Discovery	A blend of history and educational actives on 40 fun-filled pages: coloring, dot to dots, map, recipes, music, mazes, figure-ground, word games, classification, an art project and more.
	William E. & Jan C. Hill

$24.95 Paperbound 381 pages	Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement	The fascinating portraits of six frontier marriages, paying equal attention to the activities of each spouse. The family histories are told with verve and sensitivity. They provide new insight into the contributions that waiting eastern women made to settling the American West.
	Lindy Peavy and Ursula Smith

$16.95 Softcover 323 pages	Women's Voices from the Western Frontier	Butruille has done much more than gather the words of different western women who confronted an awesome landscape when it was called a frontier. She engages those voices with her own, she matches their lives with our. This book is radiant with songs and words and lives. White women, Indian women, black women, Asian women, all roads come together.
	Susan G. Butruille

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